impoverished

comparative more impoverished · superlative most impoverished

1. Reduced to poverty.

   Synonyms: poor

2. Lacking in richness, diversity or health.

   The impoverished soil here can not support any crop.

   1. Having lost a component, ingredient, faculty or feature; rendered poor in some attribute; depleted.

      English has an impoverished inflectional system.

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      [I]t was out of print for 28 years, before an edition (now rare) was published in 1960, impoverished by having all citations removed.

      2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 488

      Synonyms: defective

   2. biologyRepresented by few species.

      The fossil record from this era is impoverished.

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of impoverish